Codemasters secures Formula One video game rights

**Blazing Lion** · 28th May 2008 03:44 PM

Codemasters, developer and publisher of award-winning racing video games, has secured the exclusive video game rights to FORMULA 1? it was announced on Friday. In a worldwide licensing agreement with Formula One Administration Limited, Codemasters will develop a new generation of the multi-million selling Formula One game franchise across multiple platforms.

?Formula One is ambitious in expanding its reach with more circuits planned beyond recent additions in the Middle East and China. It is also ambitious in expanding its reach via technology. The digital communities that computer and video gaming creates will play a key role in further growing the Formula One audience and connecting them globally,? said Rod Cousens, chief executive officer, Codemasters.

?As a world-leading creator of driving games, this alliance with Formula One is the jewel in Codemasters? racing crown and creates an undisputed segment champion. Formula One has gone with the best, the segment leader. It has gone to the home of the EGO Engine for quality; it has gone to the company that can host Formula One Online, to the company that is streaking away from the pack.?

?Codemasters? success and recent innovations in the racing game space makes the company more than appropriately tuned for the challenge,? said Chris Deering, chairman, Codemasters. ?The combination of Formula One?s new momentum of expansion and Codemasters? contemporary technology and past experience is the breaking of a new dawn for the sport, on the track and on the HD game screen.?

The worldwide deal provides Codemasters with rights to feature all Grand Prix circuits, Formula One teams, cars, and driver likenesses.

The FIA Formula One World Championship games will be developed using the evolution of the award-winning EGO? Game Technology Engine, Codemasters? highly versatile cross-platform middleware technology. Its advanced graphics and physics technology brings an unmatched cinematic quality and realism to interactive entertainment.

The EGO Engine is currently being deployed in the creation of Race Driver: GRID?, the latest in Codemasters Studio?s international circuit-based racing series. Set to be a landmark release when it launches on May 30, Race Driver: GRID was recently hailed as ?The driving game of the summer? by BBC Top Gear magazine.

Codemasters expects the first game based on the FIA Formula One World Championship to launch in 2009.

Source:The Official Formula1 Website

**redtetrahedron** · 28th May 2008 09:18 PM

Woohoo! Now, if by 'multiple platforms' they include PC, I won't have to buy a PS3 just to play a F1 racing game!

**Dunk** · 31st Jul 2008 09:57 PM

Codemasters? 2009 F1 game will be a simulator as well as an arcade-style racing game according to one of the company?s executive producers.
The producer, who posts as ?Uncle Chewy? on the Codemasters forum and worked on racing titles ?Colin McRae: DIRT? and ?Race Driver: GRID? said the F1 game will be significantly different from those titles
GRID and DiRT are aimed at an arcade audience and they do that very well. F1 has different requirements and will get a completely different treatment from our in-house team, including full on sim options, physics, rules and regs etc. We will also have arcade requirements catered for as well. How this will be split we do not know yet, but split it will be.
I'm starting to look forward to this game, hopefully it should be game and Its finally comming to the 360 too.
Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/07/0...m-codemasters/

Ps, I would off posted this earlier but forgot that there was a f1 thread.

**Harakimi** · 1st Aug 2008 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Dunk

F1 has different requirements and will get a completely different treatment from our in-house team, including full on sim options, physics, rules and regs etc.

Great! Physics in DiRT are just awful, cars feel like pumpkins.

**Samsung** · 11th Dec 2008 06:13 AM

I think EA should be having that, they are the best in sports game developers in the industry. I am not so sure about Codemasters, they have messed things up a lot before

**EIR Loe.307** · 11th Dec 2008 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Samsung

I think EA should be having that, they are the best in sports game developers in the industry. I am not so sure about Codemasters, they have messed things up a lot before

Ya, and EA had the game in their lineup before too. I think they would have been a good choice. I hope the game is at least as good if not better than Sony's game.

**Ryan** · 11th Dec 2008 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Samsung

I think EA should be having that, they are the best in sports game developers in the industry. I am not so sure about Codemasters, they have messed things up a lot before

EA released a number of F1 games and all but one of them were utter shite.

**soulrider** · 22nd Mar 2009 11:43 AM

EA isn't that great when it comes to motor racing games..yaa some of their games are really good but not racing games...most of their racing games are kind of crap..

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